parchment

英['pɑːtʃm(ə)nt] 美['pɑrtʃmənt]

反义词

复数: parchments;

parchment 羊皮纸

来自拉丁语pergamena,来自希腊语Pergamon,小亚细亚古国Mysia城市名，位于现土耳其境内Bergama.因产于该地而得名，埃及纸莎草替代书写材料。拼写通俗化。

parchment: parchment: [13] Under several layers of disguise lurks the geographical origin of parchment: the ancient town of Pergamum in western Turkey, whose inhabitants used the skin of sheep for writing on rather than papyrus. In Latin, such skin was known as charta Pergamīna ‘paper from Pergamum’, or simply pergamīna. This was later blended with Parthica pellis ‘Parthian leather’ to produce a Vulgar Latin *particamīnum, which passed into English via Old French parchemin (the ending was changed to -ment on the model of other English words, in the 15th century).

The formal distinction between parchment (made from sheepskin) and vellum (made from calfskin) has never been particularly watertight in English.
parchment (n.): c. 1300, parchemin (c. 1200 as a surname), from Old French parchemin (11c., Old North French parcamin), from Late Latin pergamena "parchment," noun use of adjective (as in pergamena charta, Pliny), from Late Greek pergamenon "of Pergamon," from Pergamon "Pergamum" (modern Bergama), city in Mysia in Asia Minor where parchment supposedly first was adopted as a substitute for papyrus, 2c. B.C.E. Possibly influenced in Vulgar Latin by Latin parthica (pellis) "Parthian (leather)." Altered in Middle English by confusion with nouns in -ment and by influence of Medieval Latin collateral form pergamentum.

2. For example, animal skins called parchment and vellum were used by the ancient Greeks.: 例如, 古希腊人使用过动物皮子,如羔皮(parchment)和犊皮(Vellum).

3. The parchment came / fell to bits ( ie disintegrated ) in my hands.: 羊皮纸在我手中成了碎片.

4. Her complexion is like parchment very much the worse for wear.: 她的皮肤象一副羊皮,根本不配披在身上.

5. The writing on the parchment had faded until it was almost illegible.: 羊皮纸上的字迹已褪色,到了差不多让人认不清的地步.